Linux accessibility, at least for users who are blind, is far more impressive on the console. In fact, it's extremely impressive on the console rivaling, and even surpassing, many things that users of expensive proprietary-ware applications have. The biggest thing wrong with the console is in fact the very negative and dismissive attitude that many GUI people seem to have of it. Chris Gray writes: > At best, MSAA mode was little more than a bandage. Let's hope that > something more positive can come out of Longhorn. One of the primary > reasons I am setting up a Linux box is to check out Gnome; what I've > seen so far of its access is quite impressive though it has a ways to > go for certain. > > Chris > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.
